Millinery hat or bonnet box



A TTORNEYS (No Model.) A. G. MACK.

MILLINERY HAT AND BONNET BOX.

' No. 443,397. Patented Dec. 23, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREXV C. MACK, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

MILLINERY HAT OR BONNET BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,397, dated December 23, 1890.

Application filed April 9, 1890. Serial No. 347,219. (No model.)

To all whom, it ntay concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW O. MACK, of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Millinery Hat or Bonnet Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to boxes designed to be used for packing millinery hats or bonnets for shipment.

My improved box is made of triangular shape or construction in transverse section. It may be made of card-board or any other suitable material, and either folding or fixed, but preferably folding, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

By making the box of triangular shape the trimmed hat which is placed in it will be immovable or stationary, no matter which side of the box is turned uppermost. Therefore the trimming cannot be crushed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a face view of a blank from which my improved hat or bonnet box, when a folding one, is made. Fig. 2 is a View in perspective of said box after it has been opened, showing a trimmed hat within it. Fig; 3 is a perspective view of the box closed, and Fig. 4 is a diagram illustrating a series of the triangular-shaped boxes as arranged to form a nest within an outer box or case for shipment.

The blank shown in Fig. 1, which may be made of card-board or other suitable material, has sides and end portions A A and B B, bent or creased to fold on the lines ac and b b, respectively, between which lines is a central portion 0, so that when the blank is folded or set up it will make a triangular box,

of which A A form the two inclined sides, O the base, and B B the ends. The side and end portions A A and B B are further made with wings or flapsv c 0, cl (1, and e e, and with slits ff in line with the creases or folds of the flaps c c, and a slit gin the crease or fold line of the flap (Z of one of the sides A, so that when the blank is set up or closed to form the box, the flaps c 0 may be bent inward, the flap d of the opposite side A passed down through the slit g of the other flap (Z to lock the sides A A together, and the flaps e e of the end portions B B passed through the slits ff of the sides to lock the ends of the box when closed. Tapes or strings h it may be fasten ed to the ends or end portions to secure the whole when closed, as shown in Fig. 3. hen the box is laid open or fiat, as shown in Fig. 2, the hat D is placed in the center of it. The sides and ends of the box are then brought up and closed, and the strings h 71 attached to the ends tied, as shown in Fig. To remove the hat, the sides and ends of the box are fully opened. The trimmed hats when put up in these boxes do not really or absolutely need any packing with tissue-paper or other material, it only being necessary to get a box of given size to fit the brim of the hat, place the hat in it, and close the box.

Besides the advantages hereinbefo re stated, there is a great saving both of time in packing and space occupied by the package-a great advantage both to the shipper and receiver. Thus a room capable of holding twelve hundred square boxes will receive tWenty-one hundred (more or less) triangular boxes of the same dimensions at their base and in direction of their height.

In Fig. t a series of the triangular boxes containing trimmed hats are shown, arranged within a square or oblong space that may be supposed to represent an outer case or box S.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A millinery hat or bonnet box of triangular shape and consisting of the base C, the inclined sides A A, each provided with the flaps c and cl at its sides and ends and with the slits fand the slits fbeing at the creases or folds of the flaps c and the slit g being at the crease or fold of theflap d of one of the said inclined sides, and the triangular ends B, projecting from the base and provided with the flaps e, projecting from opposite sides, substantially as herein shown and described.

ANDREXV O. MACK.

Witnesses:

Orro ROENICKE, J. D. RonrxsoN. 

